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English playwright and author (1933–1967)
John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder
Joe_Orton
British writer and murderer (1926–1967)
and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend and murderer of playwright Joe Orton. Halliwell was born in Bebington on the Wirral near Liverpool. He was
Kenneth_Halliwell
American scholar of literature
In English literature, she is known for her work on the British writer Joe Orton; she edited several of his early novels and plays for their first publication
Francesca_Coppa
British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Gary_Oldman_filmography
English actor and filmmaker (born 1958)
British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Gary_Oldman
1987 British film
a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett
Prick_Up_Your_Ears
English and American actor (born 1993)
Court Theatre. He made his television debut in the 2017 BBC Two docufilm Joe Orton Laid Bare. In 2019, Froushan appeared as Gautier in the second season
Arty_Froushan
British actor (born 1989)
(2017) directed by Guy Ritchie. Fox played key scenes as Mr. Sloane in Joe Orton Laid Bare, voiced a character/s in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, and voiced
Freddie_Fox_(actor)
English producer (1936–2020)
responsible for commissioning and directing the early plays of Caryl Churchill, Joe Orton, Tom Stoppard and Sue Townsend. Tydeman was the head of BBC Radio Drama
John_Tydeman
British animator, writer, and director
Roberts and Joe Orton's sister, Leonine Orton-Barnet. The second is at the Little Theatre in Orton's hometown on the anniversary of Orton's death on 9
Chris_Shepherd
American theater critic (born 1941)
version of his 1978 book about British playwright Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. Lahr was portrayed in the film by Wallace Shawn
John_Lahr
2009 play by Simon Bent
Up Your Ears is a play by Simon Bent, based on the life of playwright Joe Orton. Produced by Sonia Friedman it opened at the Comedy Theatre in London's
Prick_Up_Your_Ears_(play)
1965 play by Joe Orton
Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death
Loot_(play)
Gay slang term
indecent assault. After the murder of playwright Joe Orton by his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell in 1967, Orton's diaries were published and included explicit
Cottaging
1963 play by Joe Orton
Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964
Entertaining_Mr_Sloane
British playwright and screenwriter (1911–1977)
this character as the basis for belittling him. "Aunt Edna" inspired Joe Orton to create "Edna Welthorpe", a mischievous alter ego stirring up controversy
Terence_Rattigan
English actress and singer (1929–2025)
Archived 20 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, BFI Film & TV database. Joe Orton Laid Bare - BBC 2 page for programme, accessed 22 April 2026. Jacobs,
Patricia_Routledge
British actor
in The Sea at the same theatre. Haig's next role was Truscott in the Joe Orton black farce Loot at London's Tricycle Theatre from 11 December 2008 to
David_Haig
Street in the London Borough of Islington
George Gissing, artist Walter Sickert, playwright Joe Orton, and the author Nina Bawden. In 1967, Orton was murdered in his flat at 25 Noel Road by his
Noel_Road
British actor (born 1960)
1988, he played Joe Orton in an extensive national tour of Diary of a Somebody, a dramatized adaptation of the diaries of Joe Orton, adapted by John
Jonathon_Morris
English actress (born 1985)
Hours Lauren 6 episodes 2017 Babs Barbara Windsor Biopic Joe Orton Laid Bare Ensemble Orton Cast BBC Two docudrama 2018 Torvill & Dean Janet Sawbridge
Jaime_Winstone
English actress (1933–2020)
Coventry. From Coventry, she moved to Ipswich Repertory Company, where Joe Orton was a fellow ASM. Two years later, she joined a touring group, the West
Rosalind_Knight
1970 British film
screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed
Entertaining_Mr_Sloane_(film)
Irish actor (1933–1998)
theatre director. He was best known for his roles in the comedies of Joe Orton. He received three Tony Award nominations for his roles in the plays Spokesong
Joseph_Maher
Scottish actress (1931–2016)
acquainted with many of the leading figures in the British theatre, including Joe Orton, who recounted in his diaries that he asked her advice on how best to
Adrienne_Corri
English actor (born 1953)
was held at the same venue. In 2025 he played the role of Kemp in the Joe Orton play Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Young Vic. Although he is one of Britain's
Christopher_Fairbank
Film script by Joe Orton
Against It is an unproduced script by Joe Orton, written in 1967 for the Beatles at the height of their fame. Orton's screenplay was a revised version of
Up_Against_It
Surname list
S. Orton (1817–1895), American lawyer and judge James Orton (1830–1877), American naturalist Joe Orton (1933–1967), English playwright Kyle Orton (born
Orton_(surname)
English actor (1911–1989)
theatre with his role in the film adaptation of Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton of the previous year in 1970 to great critical praise. Andrews made his
Harry_Andrews
American professional wrestler (born 1980)
Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2000, where he performs on the SmackDown
Randy_Orton
2007 British film
film "lethal farce, combining hints of The Lavender Hill Mob, doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix." He added
Death at a Funeral (2007 film)
Death_at_a_Funeral_(2007_film)
British actor (born 1964)
until the latter's death in May 2024. They met during the production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane. The couple resided in South London. Daniels was
Ben_Daniels
English actor (born 1975)
2006 My First Wedding Nick Goldplated Col Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! Joe Orton 2007 Fairy Tales Jake 2008 Shameless Mark 1 episode; series 5 episode
Kenny_Doughty
Pinter Gateway Theatre, Chester 1971 Entertaining Mr Sloane Mr. Sloane Joe Orton Gateway Theatre, Chester 1971 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Performer
Bill Nighy on screen and stage
Bill_Nighy_on_screen_and_stage
British actress (born 1961)
Husband (Oscar Wilde), 2010–2011 Mrs Prentice in What The Butler Saw (Joe Orton) at the Vaudeville Theatre, 2012 Nell in Passion Play (Peter Nichols)
Samantha_Bond
British actor (1926–1984)
go onstage at the Lyric Theatre, London, where he was performing in Joe Orton's play Loot. A memorial service was held on 15 November 1984 at St Paul's
Leonard_Rossiter
Title Role Venue 1998 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs Joe Orton Hampstead Theatre, London 2005 Guys and Dolls Sky Masterson Piccadilly
Ewan_McGregor_filmography
English actress (born 1957)
Wingfield. She has played the part of Kath in Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton at Curve Leicester and Toine in Piaf directed by Paul Kerryson. She has
Julia_Hills
English actress (1932–2025)
Night series (BBC) she appeared with her husband Timothy West in the Joe Orton farce What the Butler Saw (1987) playing Mrs Prentice. In the early 1990s
Prunella_Scales
American musician (born 1948)
screenplay (originally titled "Prick Up Your Ears"), that British playwright Joe Orton had originally offered to the Beatles for their never-made follow-up to
Todd_Rundgren
English actress (1932–2015)
Kenneth Williams in the original unsuccessful 1965 production of Loot by Joe Orton, which closed at the Wimbledon Theatre before reaching London. After this
Geraldine_McEwan
English actor (born 1961)
England, on 20 April 1961, as the only child to Anthony Arthur Joseph "Joe" Lyndhurst and Elizabeth M "Liz" (née Long). He grew up in Emsworth. His
Nicholas_Lyndhurst
1997 studio album by Todd Rundgren
originally written in 1967 by Joe Orton for the Beatles. This album is Rundgren's score to the stage adaptation of playwright Joe Orton's Up Against It, the unfilmed
Up_Against_It!
French actor (1984–2022)
debut in Que faire de Mister Sloane?, an adaptation of English author Joe Orton's 1963 play, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, in which he played the title role
Gaspard_Ulliel
Chilean folk singer and activist (1932–1973)
Apablaza, Germán Luco Cruchaga (director) 1968. Entertaining Mr Sloane, Joe Orton 1969. Viet Rock, Megan Terry 1969. Antigone, Sophocles 1972. Directed
Víctor_Jara
Play written by Joe Orton
What the Butler Saw is a two-act farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. He began work on the play in 1966 and completed it in July 1967, one
What_the_Butler_Saw_(play)
The Visitors is a 1961 one-act play by British playwright Joe Orton. The BBC and the Royal Court Theatre had considered the work but ultimately rejected
The_Visitors_(play)
Name list
linguist Kenneth Halliwell (1926–1967), British actor, lover and murderer of Joe Orton Kenneth Ham (b. 1954), American astronaut Kenneth "Ken" Holtzman (1945–2024)
Kenneth
American film and television actor (born 1963)
January 25, 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2023. Dodds, Richard (July 30, 1987). "Orton's "Loot" can still both shock, amuse". newsbank. Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Eddie_Jemison
The Erpingham Camp (1966) is a 52-minute television play by Joe Orton, which was later performed on stage. The play was originally produced by Associated-Rediffusion
The_Erpingham_Camp
American actor (born 1958)
gay classmate. Baldwin made his Broadway debut in 1986 in a revival of Joe Orton's Loot alongside Zoë Wanamaker, Željko Ivanek, Joseph Maher, and Charles
Alec_Baldwin
Robert David MacDonald Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company Loot McLeavy Joe Orton Giles Havergal Glasgow Citizens Theatre Company Mother Goose Villager
List of Ciarán Hinds performances
List_of_Ciarán_Hinds_performances
Topics referred to by the same term
Entertaining Mr Sloane, a 1964 play by Joe Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane (film), the 1970 film version of the play by Joe Orton Sloane (film), a 1984 action movie
Sloane
British actor (born 1959)
Off-Broadway in 1981 as the title character, a homicidal drifter, in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane (alongside Joseph Maher and Barbara Bryne). His
Maxwell_Caulfield
British actor
Tall Dark Stranger Jewellery Shop Salesman 2011 My Week with Marilyn Joe Orton 2011 Mother's Milk Jim Packer 2011 The Iron Lady Grey Suited Guest 2013
Robert_Portal
Guyanese-British author (born 1941)
Your Ears, the biography of controversial playwright Joe Orton, author of Entertaining Mr Sloane. Orton and his friend Kenneth Halliwell were frequent visitors
Mike_Phillips_(writer)
fictional New England town of Tarbox in his 1968 novel Couples. June 2 – Joe Orton submits The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written with Kenneth Halliwell
1957_in_literature
English actor (1931–2021)
directed by Eric Thompson (1976) Sergeant Match, What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton at the Royal Exchange, Manchester directed by Braham Murray (1977) Tom
Trevor_Peacock
British DJ, record producer and club promoter (1948–2008)
His lifestyle and career linked him to figures such as playwright Joe Orton and Orton's partner, actor Kenneth Williams and DJ Kenny Everett. His career
Tallulah_(DJ)
The Ruffian on the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton which was first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1964, in a production by John Tydeman. It
The_Ruffian_on_the_Stair
British actor (1920–1978)
impression as Inspector Truscott in the West End production of Loot by Joe Orton in 1966. In 1954, Bates married Margaret M. J. Chisholm. They had three
Michael_Bates_(actor)
1964 television play by Joe Orton
Faithful Servant is a darkly comic television play by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was originally written in 1964 and was filmed for British television
The_Good_and_Faithful_Servant
English actor
musical play Assassins (he has a tenor singing voice), and performed in Joe Orton's play The Erpingham Camp as part of his A-levels in 2005. He graduated
Chris_New
British actor and comedian (1926–1988)
gay playwright Joe Orton, who wrote the role of Inspector Truscott in Loot (1965) for him. Williams went on holidays to Morocco with Orton and his partner
Kenneth_Williams
British actress, comedian and writer (born 1962)
Lammle. On stage, she appeared with Matt Di Angelo and David Haig in the Joe Orton black farce Loot. In July 2011, Mackichan performed alongside Julian Barratt
Doon_Mackichan
English actor (1942–2021)
and Christopher Villiers in a production of Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton. He appeared with Sue Holderness ('Marlene' in Only Fools and Horses)
John_Challis
same year, she appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw. In 1997, she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio
List of Kate Winslet performances
List_of_Kate_Winslet_performances
British theatre and television director (born 1950)
Beckett, Alan Bennett, Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, Stephen Poliakoff, Peter Shaffer, Terence Rattigan, Ron
David_Thacker
British writer
for the feature film Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000), and the Joe Orton biographical play Prick Up Your Ears based on John Lahr's book. He wrote
Simon_Bent
English actress (1912–1992)
and Prick Up Your Ears (1987), the film based on the life of playwright Joe Orton. Sanderson's husband was the actor Gregory Scott, who appeared alongside
Joan_Sanderson
Fireflies André Deutsch Patrick O'Brian Master and Commander Collins Joe Orton Head to Toe Methuen Ruth Rendell A Guilty Thing Surprised Hutchinson 1971
List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize
List_of_winners_and_nominated_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize
British actor (1935–2002)
and Henry V the same year, and Sergeant Match in a 1987 version of the Joe Orton play What the Butler Saw. In 1980 he played Albert Case, leader of a group
Bryan_Pringle
English actor (1932–2009)
lifetime of physical performance. Cater went on to train at RADA alongside Joe Orton, Joan Collins, Peter O’Toole and Albert Finney. Cater made his professional
John_Cater
British actress
JB Stevenson Jonathan Lynn Cambridge Arts Theatre What the Butler Saw Joe Orton Roger Michell Cambridge Arts Theatre Private Lives Noël Coward Gareth
Deborah_Norton
English actress
Echo that Clarke would be playing the role of Kath in a revival of the Joe Orton play Entertaining Mr Sloane, as part of the city's Capital of Culture
Margi_Clarke
Musketeers without the Beatles' involvement); and a script by playwright Joe Orton called Up Against It. Throughout the 1980s, a hand-drawn animated film
The_Beatles_in_film
English actor (born 1946)
London Cast Recording) 1968 Nicholas Beckett in What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. (1977) Henry
Michael_Feast
Topics referred to by the same term
Looted (film), a 2019 British crime drama Loot (play), a 1965 play by Joe Orton Loot and Other Stories, a 2003 short-story collection by Nadine Gordimer
Loot
British actor and voice artist (born 1946)
Marianne Elliott at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1999). Truscott, Loot by Joe Orton. Directed by Braham Murray at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2001). Harpagon
Derek_Griffiths
Genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous
Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Jacques Copeau Farce, from Georges Feydeau to Joe Orton and Alan Ayckbourn Jester Laughing comedy, as practiced by Oliver Goldsmith
Comedy
Drama school in London, England
National Theatre Sophie Okonedo – Hotel Rwanda, Dirty Pretty Things, Ratched Joe Orton – playwright, Loot, What the Butler Saw Peter O'Toole – Lawrence of Arabia
Royal_Academy_of_Dramatic_Art
1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers
1919. A copy of Clouds of Witness was one of the volumes modified by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in their adulterations of library books from the
Clouds_of_Witness
British actor (born 1946)
that the production was taped just a week after the murder of playwright Joe Orton. Francis played the character of Willoughby in the BBC's 1971 production
Clive_Francis
British novelist and dramatist
commissioned radio play for BBC Radio 3 in October 2016. The story of how Joe Orton struggled to get a US visa to visit the Broadway production of his play
Jake_Arnott
Public university in England
collections of 20th century writers and illustrators: The Joe Orton Collection. Joe Orton (1933–1967) was a Leicester-born playwright, the collection
University_of_Leicester
Theatrical agent
Hare. After discovering Joe Orton, then living on National Assistance, she persuaded producer Michael Codron to stage Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane.
Peggy_Ramsay
English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)
others such as Poe's and Kipling's, but had no "loyal passion" for them. Joe Orton, English playwright of the 1960s, based the title and theme of his breakthrough
William_Ernest_Henley
British journalist and author
writing dissertations on 1930s political literature and the plays of Joe Orton. He also studied an MA in Journalism from the London College of Communication
Jonn_Elledge
British actress
Series 2 regular Paul Tonkinson's Valentine Rosie Television short film Joe Orton Laid Bare Television film 2018 Urban Myths Dorothy L. Sayers Episode:
Rosie_Cavaliero
British comedy by Silvio Narizzano
screenplay was by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson based on the 1965 play Loot by Joe Orton. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The setting is a seaside
Loot_(1970_film)
British actor
The Complete Walk: As You Like It Touchstone Short film 2017 Joe Orton Laid Bare Joe Orton TV film 2018 Shakespeare's Globe: The Two Noble Kinsmen Arcite
Bryan_Dick
Day of the year
James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat (died 2021) 1933 – Joe Orton, English dramatist (died 1967) 1934 – Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio
January_1
Edgar Middleton Raman Mundair Peter Nichols Onyeka[clarification needed] Joe Orton John Osborne Harold Pinter Alan Plater Alan Pollock J. B. Priestley Peter
List_of_British_playwrights
British human rights lawyer
2017. "Camden Journal: Orton and Halliwell back in the dock". 22 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.[dead link] "Joe Orton retrial". 22 October 2017
Nigel_Richardson
English actress (born 1967)
court composer Henry Purcell. On stage, she starred as Nurse Fay in the Joe Orton comedy play, Loot, working alongside actor Michael Elphick. She also played
Letitia_Dean
Halliwell (1967), took sleeping pill overdose after murdering his partner Joe Orton. Pete Ham (1975), Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist for the band Badfinger
List_of_suicides_(1900–1999)
British actor (born 1953)
followed with a starring role in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), playing Joe Orton's lover (and eventual murderer) Kenneth Halliwell. He was originally cast
Alfred_Molina
British theatre producer (born 1930)
Simple Man. Codron followed this with Poor Bitos (1964). He also produced Joe Orton's first play Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964) at the New Arts Theatre in
Michael_Codron
Former boutique in London
biography of influential proto-punk subversive Joe Orton, and text culled from the biography of Orton stating how cheap clothes suited him. Among the
Sex_(boutique)
Theatrical genre intended to make an audience laugh
Vsevolod Meyerhold and Jacques Copeau Farce, from Georges Feydeau to Joe Orton and Alan Ayckbourn Jester Laughing comedy, as practiced by Oliver Goldsmith
Comedy_(drama)
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Light; God will Increase
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